Broadcast area Rochester and Vicinity ERP 50,000 watts Class B Frequency 92.5 MHz Format Country music Area Rochester Slogan Rochester's New Country | First air date 1970 (as WNWZ) HAAT 152 meters Facility ID 71206 City of license Rochester Owner Entercom Branding 92.5 WBEE | |
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WBEE-FM (92.5 FM) is a country music formatted radio station in the Rochester, New York, radio market. It is owned by Entercom Communications, who acquired the station from Sinclair Broadcasting in 1999.
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The station is usually 1 or 2 in listenership in the Rochester area according to Arbitron.
History
The station adopted its current format in April 1987. Prior to becoming WBEE the station had a variety of formats including all news WNWZ and then better known album rock format Magic 92 as WMJQ until flipping to a pop format Q92 and eventually to country as WBEE. The station's studios are located at Entercom Rochester's High Falls Studios downtown, and its transmitter tower is in Penfield, New York.
WBEE is also the former call sign of the AM station in Harvey, Illinois now known as WBGX.
The award-winning Morning Show, "The BEE Morning Coffee Club" weekdays 5:30am to 10am, is hosted by Jeremy Newman, Steve Hausmann, and TJ Sharp. The show was hosted by Bill Coffee from the show's inception up until his death in 2005.
The Midday Shift from 10am-3pm is hosted by longtime morning show co-host Terry Clifford who moved into midday's in August 2015. Billy Kidd hosts the afternoon drive and Justine Paige hosts the evening shift weeknights from 7pm-midnight. Up until the departure of long time overnight host Dave Beck, the station had live talent 24 hours a day on weekdays, one of the few radio stations in the country that did.
A long feature of the station is its Guitars and Stars"' concert which was held at the Dome Arena in Henrietta, New York and now at Finger lakes Gaming and Racetrack in Farmington NY features up and coming country music stars in an acoustic setting to benefit the Ronald McDonald House.
In the past the station also hosted "Random Acts of Country" where an up-and-coming country music star would show up and play without prior public notice at a local bar or restaurant in the Rochester area.
Features
A long feature of the station is its "Guitars and Stars" which is held at the Dome Arena in Henrietta, New York and features up and coming country music stars in an acoustic setting to benefit the Ronald McDonald House.
In the past the station also hosted "Random Acts of Country" where an up-and-coming country music star would show up and play without prior public notice at a local bar or restaurant in the Rochester area.